Prayer Guide for Individual Mission Teams

Have you signed up to pray for one of our five Israel Mission Teams?  If so then check out this Individual Mission Teams Prayer Guide.  It has a detailed list of prayer requests that you can use as you pray for the teams while they are gone.  If you haven’t yet signed up to pray for a specific team just let us know and we’ll get you on the list.  Thanks for standing with us in prayer!

Hour-By-Hour Prayer Guide

Are you a part of our 24-Hour Prayer Team for the Israel Mission Trip?  Then you won’t want to miss out on this incredible Israel Mission Trip Hour-By-Hour Prayer Guide.  Click the link to download the file and join us in prayer!  Simply scroll down until you find the time at which you have signed up to pray.  Then read the prayer guide prepared by Heather Bell.  At the bottom of each page you’ll find a name of a student or adult leader that corresponds to your time.  Take a moment as you pray to intercede on his or her behalf.  Thank you for standing with us in prayer!  I can’t wait to see what God does through you and through our Israel Mission Team!

The Last Week!

It’s the last week to sign up for the Worship in Action Prayer Initiative!  Our first goal is to have 50 people praying for each of our five Israel Mission Teams, and our second goal is to have one person praying for the team during every hour they are away.  We have made great progress, but there are still opportunities for you to get involved.  Each of our Mission Team Prayer Teams need about 25 more people to meet our goal, and there are still numerous slots open for our 24-Hour Prayer Team, including many in the middle of the afternoon!  If you’d like to be a part of this you can do one of three things:

1. Leave a comment here.
2. E-mail me at dray@tallowood.org.
3. Sign up at the Re:Action Center on Saturday or Sunday.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join with our Tallowood community as we intercede on behalf of the Israel Mission Team and all those they will encounter on their trip!

WIA:Israel Launch Video

Worship in Action: Israel

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Worship in Action emphasis as we partner with the Youth Mission Trip to Israel. Forty-nine students and adults will be in Israel from July 14-26. They will begin their time with a tour of the Holy Land, walking the land where Jesus walked. Then they will split up into five mission teams for the remainder of the trip, serving the Israeli people in a variety of ways. The five teams will go to Ashdod, Haifa, Galilee, Nazareth, and Jerusalem. Stay tuned to the Worship in Action blog to find out more details about each team.

This Worship in Action emphasis will be a bit different from those in the past. Ordinarily we ask you to give money or something tangible that will go directly to those in need. This time we felt God leading us in a different direction, but what we’re asking for is no less valuable. We’re asking for your time. More specifically, we’re asking for your prayers.

Paul exhorted the Roman church in Romans 12:12 to remain “faithful in prayer,” and we are called to the same discipline. Can you imagine what could happen through the lives of these students if we as the Body of Christ committed ourselves to praying on their behalf? It could be more than any of us could imagine!

You can be a part of this in one (or both) of two ways. First, we want to create a prayer team of fifty people for each of our five mission teams. These teams will commit themselves to pray for the mission team during the eight weeks leading up to the trip. You’ll receive prayer guides and reminders via e-mail, and you’ll also have a chance to join in a commissioning service on Sunday night, July 12. The second way you can be involved is by committing to pray for the Israel Mission Trip during one of the hours it is taking place. Our goal is to have someone praying for the mission teams during every hour they are away!

The opportunities for cross-cultural, life-changing ministry on this trip are incredible, and you can be a part of God’s work in the lives of these forty-nine participants and the people they touch. Join us in prayer over these eight weeks, and commit to pray for the team during one of the hours they are away. You can sign up for each of these opportunities at the Re:Action Center, located just outside the Worship Center each weekend. And don’t forget to keep checking back for updates and prayer guides.

This is Worship in Action!

Galveston House Tour 1

Our Intrepid Mission Team

What a great group!  Here is our Spring Break Mission Team in front of the church that has become “home base” for the week.  Thanks to Bob McSpadden for the photo!

These Tallowood members used their Spring Break to rebuild houses in the Seabrook area.

Houston Chronicle Story

Tallowood’s Spring Break mission trip to the Galveston area has made it into the Houston Chronicle, albeit briefly.  Check out the link below to see more:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6314745.html

I was able to go down yesterday to see some of the work our people are doing down there, and it’s great to see the many ways our team has been helping out.  From painting to putting up sheetrock to installing baseboards to renovating bathrooms our people have done it all.  Stay tuned for video tours of some of the homes our team was working in, as well as other snippets of footage I was able to get.

It Fits!

It was a pleasure yesterday morning to load our U-Haul truck full of donated items destined for the Galveston Mission Center.  Eddy and I were there with several members of the Galveston Mission Team, and together we moved the items from their two storage rooms into the 20-foot truck we had rented.  Midway through we weren’t sure the truck was going to be big enough, but after some careful packing by Eddy we managed to fit it all in with a little room to spare.  I took some video of the process, so sometime soon you’ll be able to see just how much stuff we put into that truck.  All of us were overwhelmed at the sight of so much generosity.  Thanks again!

Leaving Tomorrow!

The Galveston Mission Trip leaves tomorrow!  And headed down to Galveston will be dozens of Tallowood members of hundreds of pounds of clothing, food, and toiletries.  How much?  Well, we had to rent a 20-foot U-Haul truck to carry the load! At the beginning of our emphasis we started storing the items in the old Outreach office at the Tallowood Center.  After a few weeks that proved to small to handle the load, so we expanded to a second room, which is now full as well.  All we can say is thank you, for all the items you have donated over these eight weeks.  We have been overwhelmed!  We can’t wait to bring this overabundance to the Galveston Mission Center!

Pray this week for our Mission Team, that all would be safe and healthy, that they would find numerous opportunities to be of service to the community, and that they would be able to share their faith in Christ through words and deeds.  It looks like the bulk of the work will actually take place in Seabrook, since many of the houses in Galveston are simply not ready for the kind of work our team will be doing this week.  We can’t wait to hear the stories of the team when they come back!